Sled.



PATENTED JULY 17, .1906.1

G. H. DIGKSON.

SLED. APPLICATION FILED AUG. se, 1905.

IINITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES H. DICKSON, OF PORTLAND, MAINE, ASSIGNOR TO GEORGE M.

CRAM, OF PORTLAND, MAINE.

SLED.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 17, 1906.

Application led August 26,1905. Serial No. 275,917.

My invention relates to improvements in.

sleds, and more particularly to coastingsleds. v

It is designed to provide a sled which may be easily guided and where the seat is supportedvwith a cushion effect.

In the accompanying drawings, Figure 1 is a central vertical sectional view of my improved sled, and Fig. 2 is a perspective view of the same.

In said drawings, A represents the usual supporting runners, connected by lateral beams B and provided with a top C.

F is a seat mounted on springs, preferably two-E at the rear end and one, D, near the front. Centrally positioned between the main runners is a steering-runner H, which is operated by means of lever I, rigidly secured in any convenient manner to the steeringrunner and extending upwardly through a guiding-collar J, secured to the sled proper, and thence upwardly through the seat, the lseat resting on the spring and loosely on a collar K, secured to the lever. The under side of the seat may be provided with an antifriction wear-plate L to bear on said collar. The forward spring may, if desired, be inoperative when the main runner and the steering-runner are on the same level, which may be provided for by leaving a space M between the bottom of the seat and the spring, the seat only bearing on the forward spring when the steering-runner falls below the plane of the bottom of the main runner.

The operation of my improved sled is as follows: To turn the sled to right or left, it is only necessary to turn the steering-lever, and with it the steering-runner, in the direction desired. When the surface over which the sled is passing is uneven, the weight on the forward end of the seat bearing directly upon the steering-runner through the steering-lever forces the steering-runner down below the main runners, so that'it always has'a bearing for steering urposes.

Having t us described my invention and its use, I claim- 1. In a sled, in combination, the usual supporting-runners, a steering-runner, a steering-lever, a seat mounted upon springs at the rear end and loosely mounted upon the steering-lever at the front end the front end being free to move vertically independent of the steering-lever.

2. In a sled, in combination, the usual supporting-runners, a steering-runner, a steering-lever, a seat mounted upon springs at the -rear end and loosely mounted at the front end upon a collar on the steering-lever and a spring interposed between the seat and body of the sled at the front end.

3. In a sled, in combination, the usual supporting-runners, a steering-runner, a steering-lever, a seat mounted upon springs at the rear end and at the front loosely upon a collar on the steering-lever and a s ring interposed between the front end of t e seat and the body of the sled, said spring being inert when the supporting-runners and steering-runner rest on a plane surface.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto subscribed myname, in presence of two subscribing witnesses, this 22d day of August, 1905.

l CHARLES H. DICKSON.

In presence of* ELGIN C. VERRILL, -MARION RICHARDS. 

